Roosevelt Middle

Located at 800 W Walnut St, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Roosevelt Middle is an intimate middle-grades school that educates 270 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Milwaukee School District. Enrollment runs roughly 29% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

Across the 155 schools in Milwaukee School District (65,835 students total), Roosevelt Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Roosevelt Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Roosevelt Middle has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roosevelt Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.3%, the actual is 11.5%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Roosevelt Middle is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Alliance School of Milwaukee is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Roosevelt Middle's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 385 (now 270). The Black share of enrollment decreased from 94% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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